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She looks like a good mama
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pink shirt: mom mom: yeah? ps: what are you cooking? mom: oh, iām makinā blueberry jam! ps: can i say a curse word in front of you? mom: no you may not. ps: mom! just one! mom: no, you donāt- oneās too much. ps: look at me! mom: no. ps: mom! [laughing] mom, come here! mom: no, iām not gonnaĀ ācome hereā. ps: itās one! itās the b-word! and itās the only b word- just look at me!- itās the only b-word iād say in front of you. beautiful. i think youāre beautiful. [mom stammers but doesnāt say words] isnāt that nice? mom: thatās very nice! ps: i love you bitch [mom cracks up]
'Under Monet's Pond' by Eiko Jones
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"Animal crossing," you say?
new tarot card "fuck your entire life" and its a guy being attacked by devils and flaming skulls and wild animals and screaming and fire everywhere
[ID: a composite tarot card that combines the Devil, the Tower, Death, the Moon, three, nine, and ten of swords, and seven and five of cups. There are also flaming skulls. In the space for the card's name, it is indeed labeled "FUCK YOUR ENTIRE LIFE"]
when i say all of team rocket is bi yes that includes wobbuffet
[ID: Tags that read: #picturing like #jessie: so crazy how all three of us are bi huh #wobbuffet: *babbling* #meowth: oh my gawd# meowth: you guys aint gonna believe dis. End ID]

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Generational Trauma in OFMD
Entirely boggled to learn thereās a subset of #OurFlagMeansDeath fandom who think that Ed isnāt canonically a BIPOC character? Because they donāt say aloud that he is? My beige dudes, the actor is MÄori. They cast a MÄori actress to play his mother. This was not an accident.Ā
Taika has always been proudly vocal about his mixed heritage and the fact they canonically gave Ed a white father and a MÄori mother is so important in the context of Edās character. The show is set at Peak Empire, when England (and Europe) colonised everything.
Thereās a powerful thread of subtext of this history within her characterisation and this show doesnāt do anything accidentally: she is a house servant, trapped in poverty, abused and controlled by her white partner, and conditioned to believe that āitās not up to us, itās up to Godā.
For anyone unfamiliar with European colonialism, the role the church played in it is toxic. The stolen generations and the people descended from the kids put through the Christian school systems are a legacy of it: children of indigenous people abducted and forcibly cut off from their culture to be ācivilisedā through Christianity and assimilated into a white-centric culture. The entire system was a genocidal horror story perpetuated in the name of God for centuries in almost every single colony. The children were abused and conditioned to believe they were lesser, better than their heritage but still never good - āwhiteā - enough. āWeāre not that kind and never will beā.
So when Edās mother says āitās not up to us, itās up to Godā, that is the voice of a child of colonial violence repeating what she was taught by abuse and by rote to make sure she knows her humble place in the world order created by the Christian Empires. The fact sheās a servant is also so integral to this. The Christian schools trained the children to be workers but most specifically in low-level manual/domestic work. The people running the show didnāt want them getting ideas above their station, after all.Ā
Not a word of this show is incidental. The history is there if you listen to it and it makes the red silk scene devastating because we are seeing a woman from a colonised culture literally and metaphorically pass that trauma on to her son.Ā
Think of the first time we see the silk: it is immediately in the aftermath of Edās encounter with the French Captain. This is the moment when Ed is faced with the same level of racial abuse as Frenchie and Olu get from the white Navy officers in episode 1 - āmade by savagesā, āsilence, slave!ā āyour master may tolerate uppity behaviourā.
The Captain refers to Ed as āyour kindā, immediately designating him as something Other and Uncivilised by comparison to himself. Ed reels as if slapped at that alone, asking tersely āwhatās that supposed to mean?ā. The man derisively says āa rich donkey is still a donkeyā.
But no, sure, tell me thereās nothing inherently racist about a posh white man describing a brown man in terms of a beast of burden, something meant for manual work, carrying things for its owner and known for being beaten into submission. /end sarcasm. In many documents from that era, this was a common way for white (especially English) Europeans to write about anyone not white, regardless of rank, culture or history: comparisons with animals, beasts, lower creatures are all over the place. (eta: it has also been confirmed that donkey itself was commonly used as a slur against Polynesian and Pasifika people, which makes this a deliberately targeted racist insult)
Ed, unsurprisingly, does not react well. The fact that this is the thing to make him lose his temper for the first time underscores how distressing it is for him, especially when it segues into the flashback to his mother, repeating that same lesson to him.
The way these two scenes overlapped is so important because not only does it define Edās history but also demonstrates that - even decades after the fact - the legacy of generational trauma has not and will not go away.Ā
and my foundations are decaying in this chili's tonight
Okay my last āhistorical events that need to play out in OFDMā post did well so wanted to add another one. This time for you angst lovers!
Okay one of the reasons Blackbeard is so famous is he once held an entire town hostage. He and several other pirates blocked all ships from entering or leaving Charleston, South Carolina. He also seized control of several ships and took hostages, many of whom were the elite of Charleston. One of the odd things about this raid was that Blackbeard didnāt demand money from the town but medical supplies. The ransom being a huge chest of medicine, (sources vary on how much but about 400 lbs of medical supplies). In real life, Blackbeard most likely needed the medicine for his crew who all suffering from all manner of diseases at the time (mostly STDs).
But PICTURE IT: itās not his ill crew Blackbeardās holding a town hostage for, Itās stede. Iām imagining Stede somehow gets super wounded (shot, stabbed, caught TB, etc) and is at deathās door. The ship doesnāt have any medical supplies on board. So Ed does the only thing he can think of, hold an entire town hostage until they give him medical care.
I also really wanna see this in the show because from all my reading the raid on Charleston is basically a real oceans 11 plot. The British were hot on Blackbeardās heels so they had to pull this off very quickly or the British would catch up and kill them all. Blackbeard had to organize several pirate crews together. As this effort took multiple ships all cooperating in an organized manner, which would have been incredibly difficult to organize. Plus the governer of South Carolina at the time was notorious for hunting down and killing pirates, and they were doing this in his backyard.
Edās and Stedeās love story works so wonderfully imho because we see Ed fall in love step by step. None of that love at first sight bullshit. Heās fascinated by Stede from the get-go, yes, but at that point, meeting the Gentleman Pirate is just a way to break the monotony for him. Heās genuinely planning on murdering Stede and taking his identity.
Then 1x05 happens and we can see his fascination develop into bemused affection and even admiration, so much so that at the end of the episode heās actually going in for a kiss. We quite literally watch Stede gently taking Edās heart!
But still, in 1x06, Ed letās Izzy convince him to kill Stede. We canāt know for sure if he would have gone through with it, but itās likely. When Izzy challenges Stede to a duel, Ed lets it happen. His loyalty to Stede and his loyalty to his first mate hang in a precarious balance and he hasnāt chosen a side yet. In spite of this beautiful moment of vulnerability in the bathtub, Ed isnāt ready to give up everything for Stede. He has a big old crush on him and he feels safe with Stede, but not quite safe enough to leave his former life behind.
He even considers leaving in the next episode! He thinks he has become too infatuated, too vulnerable. Then Stede drags him on this treasure hunt that he genuinely hates. But Ed realises (with the help of Lucius, of course) that in spite of that, it makes him happy to make Stede feel good, and, I believe that this is when he becomes aware that this is more than just a crush. Heās fallen head over heals for this bizarre little man.
When CJ comes on board and they have their argument, Ed learns how much it hurts to be separated from Stede. And this is when he decides to put Stede before everything else. He could have been safe, he could have gone with CJ, he could have returned to Izzy, but rather, he gives himself up to the English for Stede. Because this isnāt a crush anymore or infatuation, itās love. Thatās why he rather signs his life away than let the English shoot Stede. At this point, Ed would do anything for him, and we have witnessed this whole beautiful journey.

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I love the popular headcanon/theory of Ed hearing about Stedeās "death" in season 2 and being completely broken over it, because:
1) the angst is absolutely delicious
2) I love the implication of Ed hearing "it appears that Stede Bonnet fought with a leopard and then got run over by a carriage and then a piano fell over him" and immediately falling for it. He just hears about this absolute looney toon of a death, this absolute muppet tragedy and goes "yeah that tracks"
Ed + his progressive mental state with heartbreak